Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-13
HoLLIDAY Posr's ACTION.

A Letter Of Inquiry rs to the Resolutions
Passed.
To he Editor Of TIE Register:
see by a recent number Of your paper
that Comrade F. II. Crago is authorized
by Holiday Post to deny in toto the i'm
aginings of one jackson" concerning the
political character and aims OF the 6. A. K.
In view Of said denial wish 10 address
to said Post an inquiry "a TO the meaning
OF q certain official utteranee made and
published by il. At meeting OF the Post
held on June 18th, u resolution was passed
relative TO the proposed return OF rebel
days. The resolution concludes with this
sentence:
And further we believe that should the
time ever come to give up those flags the
proposition should come first from those
who captured them, or ut least from those
who irere and are in foil and perfect SYM
patty with the cause for which we fought
and for which so many died"
The italics are III the original resolution,
rs published by the IatsliigeHee, June 20,
under the heading "A conservative utter
ance."
The persons responsible for this PROPOSE
ton to return the fiags are President CleVe-
land, Secretary EndicOtt and Gen. Drum.
The cause for which we fought was the
preservation of the Union. Does Holiday
Post mean to declare officially their belief
that the persons before named were not IN
favor of preserving the union of the States?
DO they mean to say that the President oil
the United States and two other high Of
ficers are not now in sympathy with the
government over which they preside? l
can see no other meaning To the resolution
above quoted. 1t Is the deliberate utter
ance Of Holiday Post and by them made
public Us such.
By the way. the LateIiigsHceT in Its ac-
count OF the meeting at which the resolu-
zion was adopted, says: There were a
great many present who favored less con-
seryative utterance" An utterance less
conservative than one falsely charging by
indirectiOn that the President and two Of
his officers were i'll sympathy with the re-
belliOnl That the highest officer OF this
country preSides over a government with
the existence of which he is not in full and
perfect sympathy How could they find
words to express "a less conservative ut
terance"? The scuryiest politician in the
land would not have had the hariihOOd to
give vent to such an infamous political lie
Tor campain purposes.
Why did Holiday Post so publish and
declare itself? Can it be for any other rea-
son than that the President and his aSso-
ciates are Democrats? Was it not their
object to make this charge against the en-
tire Democratic party by making it against
its chosen leader? Was it not their desire
to arrogate to the Republican party the en-
tire credit of protecting the Union when it
was imperiled? And did they not mean TO
assert that the Republican party WAS the
only one that was in sympathy with the
maintenance of the Union as at present
established?
What other Interpretation can he given
to the resolution?
And yet the G.. A. L. is not political
organization,
Perhaps Professor CragO can furnish
SOME grammatical plans and specifications
By means vi which the part ot the reSola-
ton above quoted csn be given a different
Interpretation from that placed on 1t by
the general public.
JEFFERSON